Diceforshards on the Radio!

Beginning December 9th DiceForShards will officially be on the air with the shardsters you've come to love, no thanks to this guy:
who purportedly invented the "audion tube". What a loser. I hate him. But don't miss our first show on Sunday, December 9th at 7 probably on KMSA. If you live in junktown, simply tune to 91.3, otherwise here is the link when you want to hear our show over the interwaves, which you'll be using all the time because it's great music always right? oktanksbai!

Does it Offend You, Yeah?

Been a long weekend. Glad to say it's over, along with all the people and things with which it came. Excited for Christmas now, and all of those things that come with solstice-time, one of which is a new release by Does it Offend You, Yeah?. I've been reading a lot of negative comments regarding their name, and personally, i find no trouble saying it, and i'm a terrible enunciator. Not to mention much more difficult names like Black Moth Super Rainbow, Orchestral Manouvre in Darkness or Les Savy Fav. How the hell do you say Fav, fave? Fahv? OK, I just found out it's fahv, but my point was I had to look it up. The record "should be done by the start of December," says the british duo, which was singed to Almost Gold Recordings who also released Peter, Bjorn and John's Writer's Block back in January.

yes, that is a shirt, and yes, i did buy it.

i'll be making sure to catch this album after listening to Battle Royale: their first song on myspace and a reference to the most epic Asian movie since Mothra vs. Godzilla. You can listen to a mix they made for XFM in London by clicking on the extremely happy man below.


or by clicking on this audiolink!!!
i love you.

WAFFLE WEDNESDAYS!

are also...

VIDEO WEDNESDAYS! (old and new, it doesn't matter, it's video wednesday motherfuckers!)


Bicycles, oh yes.


I like this cover very much. Futureheads. I didn't realize how unnatractive they were until just now.


I find this very cool. Iron and Wine. "Sam Beam directed this video himself." good work mate.


BMSR. This video is mesmerizing, don't you think?


More Iron and Wine, fuck yeah.

show up for waffles, you know that its alright.

Watch and Drrerrrn

Brooklyn socially registered psychedroners Blood on the Wall have a new one coming out end of January. Meanwhile, watch these







similar psychedelic pleasures for your eyes can be found on labelmate's Gang Gang Dance's Retina Riddim which came out earlier this year. I remember reading the Pitchfork review and being totally uninterested. Pitchfork seems to always do a good job at making great things seem mediocre, and Radiohead the only ultimate wonderful ever. Anyways, don't fucking bother with the pitchfork review,(while still giving it a good rating, the review is mainly about gorillas) and just watch this. downnnnnn



"DeGraw began the process by compiling a soundtrack from the bands audio archives, going as far back as 2003 and using live recordings, practice tapes, field recordings and elements of previously released recordings; all of which was assembled together into one seamless half-hour piece of music." taken from The Social Registry's album description

You get the point.

Anyways, I'm all out of money. So you should buy it here, and then hangout and watch it with me.

And yes. I did have a Social Registry conversation with a friend tonight.
And yes. This did immediately follow.
have a good evening.

Sappy: Perfect

Have you ever heard the Sackville, New Brunswick band, Shotgun and Jaybird? Well, they broke up in May of this year. Pretty sad. They were the most epitomical, sappy, shifty-feeling, ultra lo-fi, ukulele folk band I'd ever heard. The kind of music you could go to feeling gloomy and finish feeling a little better; less dreary for having dealt with a heartache in about 40 minutes. Even more tragic is the removal of their home on the internet and the consequent inability to download their entire first three albums (the case presented to me while checking up on that today). At least you can still listen to their music on what I've found to be one of my biggest resources when a hard drive chock-full of music is corrupted and unable to playback those sweet and dearly missed tones.

yes. it's myspace. fucking what?

Good news if you were ever into S and J, one half the original duo (Shotgun Jimmie), released a solo album last month titled The Onlys. It is availible for purchase through his website, that is still up and running. Here is the video for track 1 off the album.

it's not good, but if you guys didn't know already, I'm all for things so bad that they're good.

Another Shotgun and Jaybird band member, Julie Doiron, is extremely good at playing music. Just get ahold of Désormais, which is arguably her best work, and it might just be your favorite album in the french language for a while. Below you can find some tracks and videos up for Dee-ehl from the artists' websites. Thanks.
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Ce Charmant Coeur- Julie Doiron (Desormais- 2001; Jagjaguwar Records)
Faites De Beaux Reves- Julie Doiron (Desormais- 2001; Jagjaguwar Records)
No More- Julie Doiron (I Woke Myself Up- 2004: Jagjaguwar Records)
Me and My Friend (video)- Julie Doiron (I Woke Myself Up- 2004; Jagjaguwar Records)
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heT eatDh etS, a cat friend, and a quick lookingforwardto

Baltimore:The Death Set are wonderful and amazing and two guys with hearts full of sample blasting louds and drum machined fasts.
And they pump it alll out, allll over Rad Warehouses Bad Neighborhoods. First 1,000 sold come with a flag.dowwwwnnnnn



Buy it. I did.

If you need proof that that are rad and good and all you will be listening to shortly then go here and listen, and then here for the remixes, and last here and go to the remix tab and scroll down and listen to the acapellas because you love it so much you don't even need the fasts and the louds behind it; Negative Thinking is just fucking stuck. in. your. head.

And you can even watch this because it has a werewolf and a perfectly timed popcorn walker.




Johnny Siera of thedeathset then continues on with delivering the greatness with his Retarded Kitten recordings. Alone in a warehouse playing for a special cat friend, then force fed muscle milk by some
production friends. 300 copy 7" out now on Run Roc and on iTunes.


And rockstarkilling blast noise-pop shredder Marnie Stern Is working on an album, hopefully out "around May or June of '08!"

BEST FWENDS / GERTY FARISH - HOSPITAL PARTY

Punk rock is comprised of two, and only two ingredients: not wanting, and not caring. Supreme anti-poppers Best Fwends does both; again.

According to everything-player, Anthony, Best Fwends broke into Matt & Kim/Parts and Labor's practice space with Cambridge, Massachusetts based casio shredders Gerty Farish and recorded some tunes with their instruments.(seen below)



Those tunes are being released by John D. of Gerty Farish on cassette and are according to Gerty Farish's myspace "out now!!!"




I'm assuming that because these are in fact self-released, and I can't find them on any online label catalog, that you have to just hit them up in a myspace message to get a hold of one.

But if you are not much of a linkclicker, and haven't realized that the song Here Comes Hairy Claws off of the BestFwends/GertyFarish Hospital Party Collab Tape is up for blissful listen at the Gerty Farish myspace, then here is a last and final link.

SOLD OUT

That's what the three shows MBV has planned for the summer of 2008 are as of 2:40am on the day they went on sale. Guess our shores hit the 16th of November (date of ticket sales) a couple hours after europe did, but still, that's intense. And with the selling out of the London, Glasgow, and Manchester shows on 6-20-08, 6-28-08, and 7-2-08, respectively, the far-too-longly dormant My Bloody Valentine has successfully accomplished the feat of giving me a case of the lacelust. read all about this shit here, (mbv's reactivated official webspace) here (pitchfork), and here (ATP). Haha, and to think Luke never believed me when i told him there was a new My Bloody Valentine on the way. Bitch.

UPDATE:

So the band has decided to add 4 more dates to their comeback tour. I think three sold out shows on the day they went on sale was possibly enough persuasion for four more shows. Alls I need to know now is what form of persuasion they need to hold a U.S. tour.

the new dates are:

06-21 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-22 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-29 Manchester, England - Apollo
07-03 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland

Creature

Not of habit; no. I hate the term. But when it comes to daily routine, I am Patrick Bateman. All the way down to the cold slice of cheese at Pablo's every day at lunch; routine, routine.

Every Wednesday evening a group of the finest, most handsome, devilishly smart, young residents of Grand Junction, myself included, gather to enjoy waffles covered in their choice of a usually large selection of toppings. The waffles, with their lovely powdered sugar faces, act as something of a large planet; large enough to lasso all of the days haps and mishaps, madlibs and picturegames into a swirling, clear-blue atmosphere. This takes place anywhere between 7:00 and 11:00. This night is usually the highlight of my week and I am constantly awaiting Wednesday. But, there is one problem with Waffle Night, and that, my friends, is The Awesome Prom Radio Show.



Awesome Prom is co-deejayd by a close friend of mine, the smooth sailing Andy Von Douchebagwhowontanswerhisfuckingphonetotellmehowtospellhisgarbagelastname. It airs at idontfuckingknowexactlybecausegarbageshitfacewontanswerhisphone but like seven or some shit here. in colorado.


Cedric Bixler hosts the show as well.

anyways
fucking blog linx0rz for playlists and shit.
and its good.

but waffle house doesnt have an internet connection so i never get to listen to it blahblahblah

but anyways
you can listen to it
sometime
if i can get a fucking link from the promtimers or you can tune into some channel in washington and probably hear it
im assuming

gay.

Something That Would be Painful to People's Ears

Fuck Buttons, coming forth from the UK with what they're calling "Bright Tomorrow", a 7" Picture Disc, do their jobs very well. "Sweet Love for Planet Earth", which is sadly all I've heard from the duo, starts with a euphonious two-chord arpeggio-sounding progression that willingly subjugates to a slow oncoming distortion that starts up at around 1:10 into the song. This carries beautifully for about 4 minutes while the listener can only hope to wake from this foreboding, otiose encroachment of mental insularity. It is only intensified with undecipherable, distorted half-screaming/croaking at around 5:30; a truly perfect example of how things can be so bad they're good. It gradually dies off like the slow wrinkling decay of a carnation, as if visualized through stop-motion. If you're in Britain, you can purchase the 7" here on the band's myspace under their 'sounds like' section. Recently, the filmmaker-songwriters were signed to ATP/Recordings and are working an an LP, Street Horrrsing, due out in February of next year. you can read some media coverage they've gotten by clicking here and here.

I guess I have to post real news

blog nazis on my case, keep on fighting team, we'll overcome the "man" someday.

so for real news: do you know about Sea Monstre?




go check this out!
its got drawings by your favorite indie band guys like Sunset Rubdown or FF, also by other cool drawing guys.

Also:


Woah, look at this fucking guitar, its got cats on it or some shit, I dunno.
There are at least 500 cats man, thats a lot of cats!!!
It's also a guitar, that means it plays music or some shit!
probably made through photoshop or maybe just cut up pictures, jesus christ!
HOLY FUCK, is that some double pickup action? goddamn man.

Joke posts 4eva, who cares about real things? faggots, thats who.


this will be a rad band flyer for our gay fag band for homosexuals someday, when we have a name and a show to play, woah.

Revolution Tomorrow!

Winter, if good for only one thing, is good for forcing people together indoors. The existentialist smoker heads inside, despite certain inquisition from the landlord, after growing weary of reddened ears and no longer being able to tell where the smoke ends and his/her breath begins. And when leaving an apartment to go to any external event becomes less and less appealing, youngsters will rely on self supplied alcohol and mp3 dj'd couch dancing. The cold keeps you in. Party Jail.



Seattlers coconut coolouts are playing nowhere near you anytime soon, unless you will be spending your Christmas at the Grand Canyon or in fact are a Seattler yourself. But you can watch their rough video for beautifullife-maker Party Jail here.


Baccardi commercialers and stop motion sockchangers Best Fwends are a definite favorite of the shardhouse and are, what I'm convinced, the sole reason for Erie leaving his room. Them and maybe Coachwhips.





"cheaper recordings mean more money for drugs."

Siltbreeze stars and new Matador font signees Times New Viking have two new tracks off their upcoming Matador release Rip It Off up for listen here





Buy their albums. Stay inside.

REinstate White Cloud?

Steyr-Daimler-Puch was a company that made all sorts of industrial things (including road bikes) starting in 1934 when Austro-Daimler merged with Steyr. The Austro-Hungarian company produced bikes up until 1987 when it was sold off to Piaggio of Italy. This bike came into my ownership not months back, and was sadly laying around for a couple of months until I decided to convert it to a fixed gear. The Clubman is the model, and it is a lower model of their line of bikes i read somewhere. It's ORANGE. I might paint it blue sometime. The total conversion was a little over 300 dollars, but it was well worth almost not being able to pay the rest of first semester's tuition. New components bought: whole back wheel (flip-flop), new crank + pedals and toe clips, handlebar cloth tape, and two new ULTRA Conti tires. This is the new bike that has been taking me everywhere lately. It's pretty alright, i mean, i can trackstall, AND bike to work really fast. The only thing i disliked was the unintenional halloween color scheme, which is lameee, but whatevs. Leave piles are great things. I am also personally in favor of bringing back the White Cloud Bicycle Collective (a short-lived bicycle gang started by aaron shardmaster and andyvon in the fall of 2006). Hopefully my new fixie and andy's thanksgivingful return prompt a comeback ride relatively soon. Priority: purchase new pro road bike. The RMCCC road season is starting in about three months. That red Jamis isn't going to cut it. I'll be in charge of the local Crits we're putting on. Looking for volunteers to sit by cones and tell people/cars not to use the street. I'll hopefully be racing the longer distances for out-of-town meets as well. That is yet to be decided. Come back again soon, oktanksbai!

Worried Noodles

worriednoodles.com

This is way cool man, acid tabs and coke off your best friend's sideburns man. Oh, yeah, this is an art project by that guy who did the cover art for Deerhoof's Friend Oppertunity, I guess he wrote a bunch of lyrics and then TOMLAB decided to recruit their crew to make a double CD album out of it. Lots of cool cats on this project:



yeah, thats right, deerhoof, you are buying this album just for them, right? all that grizzly bear and yacht and shit is a bonus on top of a new deerhoof track, so yeah, drop that cash son, its good money spent.

Friend!!!

3 more days until the new Grizzly Bear EP titled "Friend" comes out. Apparently, it's a bunch of remixed and collaborated songs such as "Knife", covered by CSS which i'm listening to right now, and alls i can say is that it's almost as good as girl talk's remix. actually, maybe better. You'd have to be the judge. "Knife" is also being covered by Deerhunter' singer Bradford Cox's solo project, Atlas Sound, which comes off a little overwrought. Maybe i just like the original a lot, but Atlas Sound's version is still good. Other collaborated and remixed songs are "Plans" by Band of Horses, which is a great song for the sounds of banjo and piano, and a choral version of "Alligator" from Horn of Plenty featuring Beirut and the Dirty Projectors. The alternate version of "Shift" is practically the same song as if Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead were playing guitar. "Plans" by something called Terrible vs. Nonhorse: Sounds is just fucking crazy, i don't even get it. There are also two newly recorded songs (three if you count the alternate "Shift"), one of which is a home recording of Daniel Rossen's, "Deep Blue Sea" (it's better than the movie if it were song, of course). "Granny Diner" is folk as fuck, atmospherically speaking. And "He Hit Me" is a more recognizable grizzly-bear-sounding song by The Crystals from 1962 that i guess the Grizz had been singing on tour. It was also recorded in a daytrotter session back in April.

here is what grizzly-bear.net says:

"Grizzly Bear is very pleased to announce the release of the Friend EP, a collection of new songs, covers, and alternate interpretations of songs, released on November 5/6 worldwide on Warp Records. The EP features covers of Grizzly Bear songs by CSS, Band of Horses and Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter), not to mention collaborations with Zach Condon (of Beirut) and the Dirty Projectors.... Get excited, friend!"

Listen to the tracks on their myspace, but quick, because those always get taken down around the time of actual release. You can purchase the album for 8.99 from Insound, and i suggest you do, because not only is that priced extremely reasonable, but it also comes with a silk-screened Grizzly Bear Friend poster. it's worth having if you were, say... a fan of the Grizz???

Mingering Mike

Mingering mike is basically the coolest thing i've ever heard of. From 1968 to '77, he made-believe all his records and singles, and movies, and benefit albums, and world tours, and record companies and collaborations with make-believe artists and after going through amnesty for war resisters in 1977, had all history placed into storage where it was later found in 2002 at a flea market in Washington D.C. Basically, Vanguard Squad records just released the first ever distributed recordings by mike. You can buy them here. this will make you smile. listen to mike.

Babytalk

I don't know tooo much about these tracks. Other than the A side is on FABRICLIVE.36 James Murphy and Pat Mahoney. You can pre-order the 12" single now offa Norman Records which ships off tomorrow.

What the label says:

Debut 12 from producer & engineer Eric Broucek, studio right-hand-man to DFA and touring member of The Juan Maclean, who has worked on nearly every DFA-related production in the last five years. ‘Keep On Move’ centers on a relentless dirty groove that carries dubbed out vocal chants, sweaty analogue melodies, and squelchy proto-techno bass. The alternate club version Six-Leg Friend mix adds propulsive pumping rhythms, subby bass guitar and deep effected textures. Heavily inspired by the hyperreal sounds of disco, dub and early synthesizer music, Stickydisc exists as a vehicle for Eric’s new and original productions, and ‘Keep On Move’ is only the beginning. The original mix already appears on James Murphy’s ‘Fabriclive 36’ mix, and the remix is featured on Tim Sweeney's ‘Beats In Space’. (taken from the Norman Records page)

anyways, the decent discodubby tracks of Babytalk can be found here at the bands myspace.

Dear American Apparel,

thank you for inventing style,
and giving it to this young man.


But in all honesty,

i would only do it with her in space.

Deerhoof's Siriustar UNFUCKINGREVEALED! pt.1

After one of the most intense listening sessions to solely Deerhoof's Siriustar on repeat shardmaster Aaron and myself bring to you the most in depth analyzation of the song on the net at this time.

Our thesis is as follows: Siriustar depicts a pack of santa-hating wolves on christmas eve.

Quote: "Boom, light that fire." Referring to the wolves' call to light the fire as Santa descends the chimney, then listen closely for: "Ho, ho, ho" that signals Santa Claus on the rooftop.

"Do your guys eyes wild? Music of The Who playing big: Fire." The Who, being one of the more vocal anti-christmas bands, and their song "Fire", being one of their most violent to date, is a rousing declaration of Claus directed bloodlust.

Siriustar continues: "Lunatic night rides," in response to Santa's well documented sleigh rides, "the moon flips them inside out," which is clearly a juxtaposition between Santa Claus and a werewolf, which are considered heretics by regular wolves, "Growing slowly," continues on the theme of werewolvery as well as addressing Santa's weight problems. The guitar then erupts into what we like to refer to as the "elephant squeal", which is either in fact air being pushed out an elephants trunk or a sped up whale sample.

Let us quickly point out that Deerhoof is an adamant anti-obesity activist band, especially considering the time-frame of this album; "The Runners Four" in protest of rising obesity rates in bay area.

This time signature, 1:33, marks a change in the bass line of the song (which you can easily examine in your home audio theatre if you raise the decibel level to precisely 147) that is in fact bass player Chris Cohen repeating these lines into a specially designed microphone, "I'm gonna kill that guy, I'll stuff his stockings, all I want for christmas is for santa to die!"

"Sonic, oh! That man lifts us to higher" referring to Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog; a pinnacle of speed and fitness. "You've got to lose, now! How How How?"

"Be a sirius star" or more likely "Serious Star" Challenging Santa to take his influence less lightly and be a better role model for our children.


Pt. 2 to come soon.

Erie

may or may not be in on this with me.


i hope he is.